Bone morphogenetic proteins protect pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells from apoptosis by upregulating

Mariana Ciumas1, Mélanie Eyries, Odette Poirier

  • 1From the UMR_S 956; Univ Paris 06 (UPMC); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), F-75013, Paris (M.C., M.E., O.P., S.M., F.D., K.M., S.N., F.S.); ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France (M.E., O.P., S.M., F.D., S.N., F.S.); and UMR_S 999; INSERM; Univ Paris-Sud; LabEx LERMIT, Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, France (N.G.).

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